[lbo-talk] Sean Wilentz: Blue Cities vs. Red Surrounds

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Fri Nov 12 04:30:29 PST 2004


On Nov 12, 2004, at 5:09 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:


> Talking this over with Jordan, it began to strike me that maybe the
> way to do this would be with a 3-D map, with population density
> represented by height.
>
> Offhand the simplest way to do this might be a 3-D histogram, where
> each county had a height corresponding to its population divided by
> its area (so that a large county would be flatter than a small county
> with the same pop) and each was colored appropriately.

Other than not being in color, this is similar to the map that was on the S.J.Merc front page Sunday--did it turn up on line?

John A



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